ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2022

Samuels, 18, who uses they/them pronouns, started by beseeching their district to unblock websites like the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for queer youth, and to refrian from banning library books that featured LGBTQ+ characters or dealt with racism.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The largest federal program offering support for school districts and libraries for internet connections, the E-rate, was created nearly 30 years ago. Back then much of today’s crucial technology for living and learning had not yet been invented — including smartphones, social media and AI chatbots.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The pair spent time reading at the library and volunteering, and Witchet remembers the sweeping views he took in during visits to Dennison’s high-rise office. Dennison began taking Witchet to the library during their hangouts, where the boy read “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and wrote book reports for Dennison until he improved over time. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So the state improvised an internet solution through the Kids Connect program , which created more than 1,000 wireless hotspots in parking lots at schools, libraries and parks. That divide affected a significant share of college students in West Virginia, a state where officials say nearly 40 percent of rural residents don’t have broadband.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Will the government continue to subsidize the monthly cost or not? The teacher can either work through our learning management system, which has content from Sesame Workshop, PBS member stations and soon other libraries, like Khan Academy, or through Google Classroom, Schoology and Canvas and create the lesson plan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple statewide funding sources for education technology. Over three decades, the government gave away more than 2,000 spectrum licenses to school districts and education nonprofits, primarily in urban areas.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.” James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. Soon, if not already, those updated and repaired computing devices will be returned to students for the new academic year. But it’s increasingly common.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S. Absolutely not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). What will the future of education bring? edclusters16.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And in effect, those kids will not learn early or intentionally how to share, how to speak kindly to one another, how to wait their turn and follow instructions, how to use a library. Let me say it plainly: There is not a future of early childhood education in this country where we stay where we're at.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the state and federal level, child care has been treated like a political afterthought, cast aside as a nice-to-have in a country that has long viewed child care as a “family problem,” not a government one. It’s been about the back-to-school potlucks for all the parents and the Halloween open house, the library art show.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Such awareness has also inspired a surge in federal, state and local governments discussing solutions and infrastructure upgrades. Educators and college leaders should build on these efforts by considering the following: Create an institution-wide taskforce for identifying short- and long-term community solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

federal government’s E-Rate program, which provides “universal service” funding to schools and libraries for telecommunications and internet, also said it wouldn’t pay for another project. But the company successfully ran fiber to Pine Hill School, a health clinic and the tribal government buildings. Early on, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

The Healey administration has ushered in a number of other changes, from expanding universal preschool to signing an executive order for a “whole-of-government approach” to child care, calling on various state offices to collaborate with the business community to improve the field. I feel hopeful.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a randomized field experiment, we gave parents an electronic tablet with a preloaded digital library. Some also received almost daily text messages and tips, encouraging them to set reading goals and use the library to read to their children, while providing positive feedback as they met their goals.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. In libraries, books that simply acknowledge that trans people exist are pulled off the shelves.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The federal government has also gotten involved, putting up about $16 billion toward the cause of connecting those across the U.S. Early next year, EducationSuperHighway will work with states to launch ACP awareness campaigns, Marwell says, tapping into social media and credible institutions like schools and libraries.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Head of NTIA, Alan Davidson, admitted that a goal to ensure broadband for all Americans was more likely in six to ten years, a timeline nearly five years longer than the project plan being devised by state governments.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. The system also makes it possible for a college to build a credential around the skills needed for particular occupations.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

“We were just borrowing the technological resources from the healthcare side of the business,” said Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB and one of its first employees. Government had created pressure for accountability. There’s really no culture of informed consent when it comes to educational technologies and higher education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

To mark Banned Books Week, the American Library Association (ALA) has also released preliminary data related to censorship, focusing on book bans in public, school and academic libraries between January 1 and August 31. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

AUSTIN – Educators, advocates, researchers and education technology vendors gathered last week at the SXSWedu conference here, an annual event that is now in its seventh year. As usual, the gathering brought a variety of announcements about innovation in education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

Books were pulled from libraries. Similarly, the ACLU argues that the agency has methodically removed references to race and gender from its school libraries and classroom lessons. Kuhlmeier , governs the withdrawal of curricular materials from schools but such removals must have a legitimate pedagogical concern, Sykes said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In fact, educators say theyve been subjected to censorship for years. Among them is Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who has spoken out about the books, particularly by Black and queer authors, purged from the shelves of the library she oversees at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

The humanities study the things humans makeour art, writings, thoughts, religions, governments, histories, technologies, and societieshelping us understand who we are, what we do, how we do it, why, and with what consequences, write the founding editors, Jeffrey R. According to Bulaitis and Wilson, thats the plan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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